Legal Opinion

Heatherly v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided June 19, 2017No. S16G1498

1Opinion of the Court

301 Ga. 386

FINAL COPY S16G1498. HEATHERLY v. THE STATE. HINES, Chief Justice. This Court granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Heatherly v. State,

336 Ga. App. 875

( 785 SE2d 431) (2016), to determine whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming Robert Wayne Heatherly’s misdemeanor conviction. Finding that the Court of Appeals was correct in rejecting Heatherly’s assertion that, in this case, the testimony of a single witness accomplice had to be corroborated, we affirm. Construed to support the trial court’s judgment after it conducted Heatherly’s bench trial, the evidence showed…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Hamm v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2014
  2. Lyman v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2017
  3. Harris v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2009
  4. McCart v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2008
  5. Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2004

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